Church & Wellesley - Yorkville - Annex : Featured Stories

Toronto's burgeoning foodie scene is trickling its way into hospital cafeterias, where tasty recipes made from locally sourced ingredients are setting a new bar for healing. 

The city's sharing economy is thriving thanks to a young crop of community-based initiatives. 

With Toronto picking up speed as a North American epicentre for entrepreneurialism, we rounded up some young businesses poised to make big things happen in the year ahead. 

With help from one local company, Toronto's paving the way – and the roof – for sustainable building initiatives.

A group of Toronto businesses are changing the way we interact with data. 

Nearly half a decade after the last veteran of the First World War faded, we trace Toronto’s physical relationship with the war from the city streets to the memories tucked away in attics.

Letter from Yonge Street's new Managing Editor. 

From music to video games, new technologies are making therapies for children with ASD more affordable and accessible. Meet the Toronto-based researchers whose innovations are helping children understand themselves—and the world around them—in new ways. 

After more than a dozen years in the Annex, Sonic Boom is relocating to Queen West. We talk to the owner of the iconic record store about his decision to switch neighbourhoods and his experience owning a record store in the digital age. 

Canada is not known for its hot sauces, but a number of Toronto food enthusiasts are challenging that. Combining local ingredients with a passion for flavour, these chefs are spicing up the city's culinary scene and taking over restaurant tables across town. 

Thirty-one new murals will be painted across Toronto over the next week in an effort to beautify alleyways, improve walkability, and enhance the safety of Toronto's laneways. It's part of a larger strategy to imagine what the future of this city's story could be, a narrative as told by artists. 

LGBT tourism is poised to crack $200 billion for the first time this year. With Toronto hosting the fourth annual World Pride celebrations, we look at how our city has the potential to set the global stage for Pride celebrations and welcome a new wave of tourists.